When elected officials shun the very country they were elected to represent, and when decorated war veterans, turn their back on the very military they once stood shoulder too shoulder with, then they cease to be American’s.
America was founded upon the belief that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness was so basic a right of man, that no one could take it from you not even your government. Men fought and died for these beliefs before they were even enumerated in the Declaration of Independence in July of 1776, for as far back as the Magna Carte the freedom of man was given as an absolute, and America, these United States of America was formed in that belief, and those rights have been passed down to us not on the shoulders of politicians or liberal academics, but rather on the shoulders and lives of the American Military.
In 1776 men went to war together and believed in their cause. They pledged their lives, their assets and their honor to their newfound country and to each other. Five of them were captured and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons serving in the Army; another had two sons captured and imprisoned. Nine of them died from wounds received during the War. The wealthiest of them saw their entire net worth swept away by the war. Eight of them lost everything to vandals and looters while they were away at the war.
Their homes were destroyed, their wealth was confiscated and many of them died in utter poverty. At least one of them was driven from his dying wife’s bedside. Some of them saw their families jailed and subsequently die in jail. Still others returned after the war to find their spouse dead and their children missing. The price they paid to follow the convictions they had made to God and Country were extreme. And indeed they became men of constant sorrows. Who are they? They were in fact the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence.
America was not founded so that we could be citizens of the world but rather so that we can be American’s. E Pluribus Unum: Out of many, One. Not hyphenated Americans, but simply Americans. When half of our country, elect leaders that stand for something other than that, then we have a problem.
If you can not support the country and our military in this war, then as I stated up front, I am not questioning your patriotism I am declaring that you are not patriotic at all, and this country is too good for you and your ilk. If you belief that the murderous thugs in Iraq, and Afghanistan, Lebanon and Gaza, Iran and Syria are truly freedom fighters fighting for a greater good, then by all means leave this country now and join up with them.
The left loves to attack the supporters of our military with the phrase, “if you think what we are doing in Iraq is so good, then why don’t you join?” Well the shoe can fit the other foot. If only those that are serving have the moral authority to speak in favor of the war effort, which is what they are say when they challenge you to join up, then I challenge them to live by the same rules. If they want to cry about how the war is being conducted on the ground, then they should have to join up, otherwise listen to your own rhetoric and leave this country now or shut up. You can’t have it both ways, if this truly is World War III, then sooner or later you are going to have to choose a side, choose wisely.
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